As widely predicted, Malcolm Rifkind, the MP for Kensington & Chelsea has thrown in the towel to become the next Jewish leader of the Conservative Party.
BBC News Online reports:
Sir Malcolm told BBC Radio 4's World At One he had won far less support than he would have liked.
"There is no realistic prospect of me coming through," he said.
When listening to the radio this afternoon, I think it was News Direct in London, a commentator said that "realistic prospect" meant he had about 2% support. Quite obvious that no one in his party actually saw him as a potential leader of it. Mind you, that is certainly more than a Sunday Times poll which showed him likely to get 1% of the vote.
So who is Rifkind backing? Well, old school Tory chum Ken Clarke.
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